We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOUA Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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